It might be worth starting to list Cosmic as distinct from Gnome for those people that are using Pop. Cosmic obviously has a Gnome heritage but so do Cinnamon and Mate.

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I did enjoy the first one, which was Linux native.

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Quoting: StenPettIt's all a bit "meh" in my opinion.

If you don't like snaps, don't use a distro that use snaps. If you don't like flatpak, don't use a distro that use flatpak. If you don't like either, then you know what to do.

It's all about having the option to choose what you want to use yourself. In the end, we all win regardless

I agree with your overall point, although the specific detail is the other way round. Every distro can use flatpak and every distro can use snap (although Mint arbitrarily puts hurdles in the way of user choice). Whether a particular distro comes pre-configured with either is just one of countless defaults that distros can pick, and users can change. You don't need to change the whole distro just because you don't like the default settings.

All the screeching and frothing about it (and about other topics) is entirely pointless.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: whizseI can't say I have a stake in this, but it's interesting to ponder that Ubuntu seems to have a habit of betting on the wrong horse, Mir and upstart, for example.

I wish that people would stop bringing up Upstart in discussions like these. Upstart predates systemd by 4 years and was at the time the best candidate to replace the ancient SysVinit which is why many, including Red Hat and Chromebooks, move over to Upstart.

The same is also true of snaps, Mir, and Unity. Snaps predate flatpaks and have features that flatpaks still lack. Wayland wasn't (and still isn't) a good choice for phones since it's for the desktop. There (still) isn't a convergent desktop environment that will work across phones, netbooks, tablets and the desktop, which was the aim of Unity.

Canonical's problem is that they want to push things forward but don't have Red Hat (IBM now) money.

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Oh, the Broken Sword games and Voodoo Detective are included. They're good, too.

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The Darkside Detective games are excellent, and play really well on the Deck.

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Another crazy growth statistic:

QuoteFor instance, during the 2022 Autumn Sale, 1.4 million accounts made their first-ever purchase on Steam. That’s about 134 new customers every single minute, for seven days straight.

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For those that are interested in the whys of the shader problem, this article is a good read.

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Quoting: Jarmerdoesn't ue4 work very well on proton? Sometimes I wonder, if that is the case, is it even worth it for them to do a native release? Or is that blasphemy to say? I'm just thinking dev time to upkeep two independent platforms maybe could be better spent on the game itself if it works exactly the same in proton vs native.

As KohlyKohl points out, without people using Linux tooling, those tools don't get tested, those tools don't get bug fixes, those tools don't get extended to do new and useful things. As people that use the Linux ecosystem we benefit enormously from lots of other people also using the Linux ecosystem. Visibly breaking that PC = Windows nonsense also builds a virtuous cycle for things like manufacturer hardware support.

From the game developer side, though, those that see testing/QA as a means to make their software better rather than as a cost centre see benefits from having a Linux build without considering any additional sales: having your software run in different environments gives you additional insight into what it's potentially doing wrong, which makes it much quicker (and therefore also much cheaper) to track down bugs that will affect all platforms. Linux gets you that for free - you don't need to buy an additional SDK, just boot Linux on the testing hardware you already have. A number of game developers have highlighted those benefits to their workflow. Plus Linux users are much better at writing useful bug reports.

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QuoteAccused of murdering someone he holds dear, this lowly samurai from a backwater land renounces his name and goes into hiding.

Films have taught me that, without a master, one is not samurai but rōnin.

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